This leads to a rescue quest. The actual thing you need to find is the southermost ""dot"" on this map: https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7784 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7784. Make sure you have another person if you're around the level that this quest is designed for, several adds are spawned at once in some cases and as a 46 mage I cannot take four scorpids with 2500 health each at once.

Just 2 ambushes: three lvl 47 scropids in the start and three wastevander humans (1 mage, 2 assasins, around lvl 44) almost in the end. And some usual mobs chicken just cant get past on its way >.<
Soloed without much troubles as lvl 47 affliction warlock.
Picture at https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7784 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7784 shows the way chicken follows.

All the magenta fungus cap nodes are outside of the Uldaman instance itself, but inside the indoors part that you enter from the Master's Terrace. The caps are usually in corners, behind tents, and most importantly, away from mobs.

The turn-in for each step of the quest is 250 reputation with Ironforge or Orgrimmar, as of patch 2.0.1, and if you're an alchemist, you get an additional quest, ""Badlands Reagent Run II,"" which involves killing scorched guardian dragons in the badlands, upon completion of which you receive the recipe for the Restorative Potion.

The location of the chicken is 60, 64.

I'm going to post this message on all three of these ""Find"" quests, just in case someone doesn't see it on one of the other two.

If you plan to do these quests in a group (which is very helpful, as any escort quest) everyone must first have completed the ""Find"" part of the quest, which means you have to find the chicken, choose ""Complete"" and then be *offered* the next part of the quest, which is the actual escort part. But do not accept this part until everyone has done the ""Find"" part, otherwise it won't be offered to them as escort quests normally are, because technically you are not on the same stage of the quest yet.

So just complete the ""Find"" part, then when the next part is offered, decline it until everyone is ready to accept it.

On a side note. Keep in mind how many you have gathered. It is - so far - possible to collect more than the required amount. I was able to get 3 caps from one click. I had extra after turning in the quest. If you don't keep track. You could possibly carry them around and then not remember what they were for.

Also, I did get a poison/disease from picking them. I am not sure what it was. I was running with a group at the time, and time was limited to picking and charging in.

~Lie

I done this quest as a lvl 43 prot (AoE) pally, it took two attempts. The first time the chicken died when i bubbled against the Mage and the 2 assassins because he pulled all the agro. I healed and ruined their day (but really they had already ruined mine!). Anyway, next time i got through with no problems. Tactics: I killed the scopids pally AoE style (BoSanc, Ret Aura, SoLight, holy shield). I consecrated to pull any agro off the chicken. (remember we dont want him to die!) This was the toughest fight by far. I think i even used Lay on hands after some wolf joined in. I killed everything slowly from then on so that my health and mana kept going up, BoWis, SoL does it for pallys. I changed to Prot Aura too for the chicken! Keep an eye on the chickens health; take as much beating as you need to so that he has time to heal. You can always take a potion or bandage. (I couldnt heal the chicken). I switched to Shadow res Aura before i got to the mage and Co. Killed mage first, pulled the agro from the chicken with consecration. Then went back to pally AoE again to finish off the assassins. They dual wield so happy days. (The chicken doesnt take well to dual wielders though!) He died quick the first time! There was no other trouble. Sorry this is really only a pally guide....
The longest part of this was finding the chicken! Which got me killed once but the second time i pulled a lvl 50 basilisk and half way through that i pulled another lvl 50 giant bug that dropped critters. (they died on my BoSanc though! lol) I survived it though but the fight took so long the basilisk had disappeared (and i couldnt loot it!) by the time I had finished off the bug! (really what happens is that you try and keep your health up (Jol Sol) while holy damage (ret Aura, BoSanc, Shield spike) slowly kills them!)

The debuff you get from gathering the plants: A disease for -10 to all stats.

As mentioned above, you can get more than one cap from just one click. And they are usually in corners and tents, so be on the look out for them!

Map location of the (chicken) Homing Robot: https://vanillawowdb.com/?maps=440:599640 https://vanillawowdb.com/?maps=440:599640

The Herbalist's ability ""Find Herbs"" will display the mushroom locations on the mini-map. That makes this quest very easy.

There are also Magenta Fungus Cap nodes inside the instance. I found some in the Temple Of Doom Room and also in the tunnels on my way to visit Annora (Master Enchanter) for training.

Solo'd this the other day as a 48 SPriest. Instead of fearing ambushers for the escort quests, I usually try to find a different way.

The first group I thought would be like the previous groups I ran into, and come from a distance, so I mounted and scorpions spawn in a circle surrounding the chicken, and immediately start attacking. Throw dots, attacks, or get some kind of aggro from all of them, and just focus on the one he's focused on. For reference, I found my chicken was able to stay alive for at least 25 or so seconds, easily with one scorpion and poison on him. If you're a lower level, don't attack the mob that the chicken is focused on, take 2 off of him, and take the 3rd when you've finished one, the chicken should survive comfortably, as should you.

The chicken ran past or into several mobs on the way, before, after, and in between ambushes. I didn't find these happening too terribly often, every 20-30 seconds of dead time. I just join him in the fight, these are typically single mobs, I got occasional doubles.

The second group does approach from a distance, so I was able to mount and kite them, just running through, and then past the group. The mage was only able to cast on me once, and the melees got 2 attacks per? After seeing this was quite possible, I dropped mount and engaged. I threw dots on the assassin's, and then just focused on the mage, they dropped with no fuss.

A few helpful things to remember, I wasn't able to buff or heal the chicken whatsoever, but within 10 seconds of leaving combat, that cheesy NPC regen kicks in, and he's full in 2 ticks. If his health is really low, and he's walking directly towards a mob, simply go to the side of the path, and pull the mob yourself, keeping it out of the chicken's aggro range, he'll walk right past, and you can finish the mob yourself. Also, bandages are extremely helpful, just remember that they can be interrupted easily, wait until the scorpids' poison wears off before you bandage, or you'll have a minute to wait to try again =P Hope this helps. 5450 XP

Edited for typos and the like.

Followup of this quest is https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=3721 An OOX of Your Own, but available only after completing all 3 separate quests of finding distress beacons in corresponding zones:

1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=351 Find OOX-17/TN! (Tanaris, this quest chain)
2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=485 Find OOX-09/HL! (The Hinterlands)
3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2766 Find OOX-22/FE! (Feralas)

Requires https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2500 Badlands Reagent Run to be completed before this quest can be done.

Original: Very easy, yet up there on the list of terrible quests. I dread this one every time and not quite sure why... lol

Edit: I now remember why I hate it so much...
1) Can't help the stupid chicken (Heal, Buff, etc...)
2) As stated, the chicken is an effing tard that pulls everything cuz hes only lvl 42, and he deserves every failure he gets out of this quest.
3) As a pally doing this quest, it wasnt hard. That is untill he runs along the damn beach and pulls about 6 people, half of which throw shadow bolts around for about 200. Thought SR Aura would solve that... nope. Damn bird doesnt get buffs! How could i forget that?
4) Ummm... the 100s of scorpions he pulls poison the hell out of him and you cant dispel them. The poisons end as soon as he leaves combat, but still... hes in combat for 4 mins straight cuz he attracts sheit like an overpowered magnet on steroids.

And the absolute worst part... at the end, after you go through all that hell, HE TURNS ON HIS CLOAKING DEVICE TO GET TO BOOTY BAY! Where the hell did that come from? I was so ^&*!ed! He couldnt take the wussy rogue style way out from the start? Ugh.. Dumbass poultry..
I will never become a vegetarian... We need to wipe this species off the planet. A bird that cant fly? It cant even swim or run! *sigh* maybe one day....
J/K i love my Eggs and Bacon =D oh yeah and chicken sandwiches FTW =]

Does NOT count for Eastern Kingdoms Alliance Loremaster

This quest and the its followup count for the https://vanillawowdb.com/?achievement=1680 Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement.